Package for cigars, cigarettes, and smoking tobacco



Se t. 1, 1931. J. T M CROSSON 1,821,472

PACKAGE FOR CIGARS, CIGARETTES, AND SMOKING TOBACCO Filed April 5. 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR.

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Sept. 1, 1931. J. TKMOCROSSON PACKAGE FOR CIGARS, CIGARETTES, AND SMOKING TOBACCO I Filed April 3, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 I/WE/YTU/E ATTORNEYS Patented s ept l, 1931 i I I UNITED STATES, PATENT OFFICE Jorm 'nmccnossoiv, orroa'rau rmncn, HAITI, ASSIGNOR 'ro FRESH-KEEPING PACKAGE conrom'rron, A coarona'rron or DELAWARE PACKAGE r012. CIGARS, CIGARETTES, AND smoxme 'roBAcco Application filed April a, 1928. Serial No. 267,024.

The invention relates to packages for toarticle to be treated, are fed to the machines .bacco and the like and method of making the and wrapped with the cellophane covering same, being primarily intended for packages which in'the same operation is glued to said of'pocket size, or other convenient sizes, of skeleton frame. The packages are then cigars, cigarettes and smoking tobacco. vacuumized and filled with inert gas, as de- 55 Important objects of my invention are to scribed in iny'Patent 1,458,586. The articles produce packages of substantially hermetic enclosed d preserved in this'package are. Character W h Will preserve the tobacco plainly visible through the cellophane on the a fresh and in good natural smoking condition to or b tt m f id ck g or o both,

for a. reasonable length of time, and kill 11}- while the skeleton frame'maintains the packso sects and prevent the development of their age i Shape f w ing, h ndlin and eggs; also to provide such packages con storage. structed to display the goods attractively; In the case of small or larger packages the also to provide such packages as are adapte skeleton frame maybe provided with an outer 15 o be constructed, filled and sealed by In cardboard covering into which it is slid for 65 chinery so as to reduce the expense of these protection in shipping andhandling. A port operations and of the marketing of the good tion of the top side of this protective coverin well preserved and attractive form. ing may be and is preferably cut away to My present improvements are designedto, provide a view of the contents of the vacuefliciently carry into use the process which umized d as-filled package within. 7 iS the Subject O my P en N ,4 In order tomake the invention more readgranted June 12, for amethod O? PIOCBSS understood I have hown in acco 'n- I of P i n Preserving cigars, clgarette? panying drawings means for carrying the new manner, sultable for the operations of and smoking tobacco y the substitution 0t same into effect, and for explaining the steps 25 a inert gas in Place of air Within the P of the method, but the invention is not conage so as to penetrate, surround and preserve fihd in its useful applications, to the goods, with the benefits set forth in my tails herein Set {myth the purpose of ex said patent. planation.

The lmprovement in the manufacture of Insaid n 3o cellophane, which istrans'parent and is now 11S a P1 an f a b mk a made both air and moisture roof makes it .1 .s most desirable as a covering for my package $35513? Z%%; :h fg g d in carrying out the process of my said pat- Fi Se tirve of i same ent, and my'present invention comprises a g' Egg z s q io fl I by Fig. 3 is a perspectiveview of twoend sections, which are preferably counterparts of each other, 'filled with cigars'and put to} gether and ready for the application of'the howing also packing machines, of applying, combining and utilizing the cellophane in my mproved, package for sealing the same and dlsplaying the goods. I 40 i The modern packing machine Will wrap el p PP sa dy w S and seal sixty to seventy packages of cigars sa1d wrap per partly applied. 7 I I 'orcigarettes per'minute when the artlcle op-v Flg. 4 1s a perspective view of the packerated upon is fed to the machine in suitable age sealed and completed, showing also the form to be wrapped and sealed, outer protectingframe into which'thepack- 46 1T0 facilitate the work of the machines and age may sl de. p p 5 enable them to workup to their full capacity, Fig. f )1s a perspective view of another form I have found it desirable to provide acard of the inner part or frame of the package,

board skeleton frame which has been treated comprising two separate end sections whichwith cellophane glue or other airtight soluare not counterparts b t are of different 50 tion. These skeleton frames-filled with the forms.

Fig.6 shows the same constructed so as to be formed of three pieces. f

Referring ,to the drawings, 1 indicates a blank suitable to form an end, section 2 of the package. This blank is of card board or sufliciently thick and stiff paper to maintain the form -of the section, and

is moulded or drawnby pressure with the aid of moisture and heat into the form shown in Fig. 2 so as to have an end panel 3, a bottom part 4, sides 5 and top flanges 6, 7 and 8. All these parts of the section are preferablyintegral and continuous with each other, so that each end section is Without cracks and gas-tight at its angles; but a hole 11 for the exit of air and entrance of gas is provided at a convenient point.

As illustrated the bottom parts 4 of the sections form one half of the bottom panel of the package but can be' in the form .of flanges like the flanges 6, Z and 8 to display the .goods .at the bottom as well as at the top of the package. l

he sections may be shaped so as to fit each other end to end and also have sufiicient edgewise engagement with each other where they fit together to keep one another in line during the wrapping operation. The sections may be shaped so as tobe counterparts of each other. I

In making the package two of the sections are brought together end to end at the same time enclosing the goods to be (packed, cigars or example, and are conveye to the wra ping station of the machine. Here they will arrive on the wrapper 9, preferably of cellophane, and the latter will be wrapped to enclose the top, bottom and sides of the sections 2. The wrapper 9 is a width equal to the length, of the two sections, .and need not extend so as to require to be foldedover the ends 3, and mechanism for such folding may be dispensed with. In this wrapping operation the wrapper is caused to adhere in a gas-tight mannerto the two sections; 2 on lines surrounding the tops, bottoms and sides of the sections. This J is effected by applying cellophane glue along the end edges 10 of the wrapper, or correspondingly around the sections, before or during the wra ping operation. The end sections are pre erably dlpped in cellophane solution or glue for a short distance from their .ends to prevent diffusion of the gas through the card board or paper of which the sections are composed, and to promote complete and gas-tight adhesion of thecellophane wrapper to the sections.- p

The end sections may be formed of slight- .ly difl'erent cross-dimensions; and the open end of one section'slid a little way into the open end of the other are being enclosed in the packa e, after which 65 the filled sections are wrappe as above'depiece 12 of cellophane for which it is adap of substantially gitudinal shoul section as the cigars scribed, such a construction being shown in Kfter the package is wrapped and sealed as above described it (or .a number of such g, packages) is placed in a chamber and air ex- 7 hausted from the chamber,-which will withdraw substantially all air out of the package or packages through the hole 11. Then an inert gas, preferably nitro en gas, is admitted to the chamber at atmosp eric pressure and' will enter the hole 11 and fill all unoccupied spaces within the vacuumized package. Then the sis-treated package (or packages) is removef from the chamber and an adhesive is pressed on the package to adhere to the same and seal the hole 11.

In Fig. 5 I have illustrated a construction of the inner part or frame of the package to p which the wrapper 9 is not yet applied, especially adapted for smoking tobacco or snuff. In this constructiontthe bottom, sides and top flanges "are on one eiid section only, and the other end section has an end panel with short top, bottom and side flanges, and the bottom, sides and top flanges of the first mentioned section are entered within the second short section at the filling operation, after which j' the wrapper is applied and the package gasified as already described.

It will be understood that the be used to contain anyi goods,

The herein described package, after it is completed, ready for sale, is usually insertedb slipping into an s own at 13 in Fi its to cbrrespon top 0 the packa e. v

s s own in ig. 6,the bottom, sides and lon 'tudinal flanges of the middle part of the pac age are not formed with either of the end sections, but said end sections engage outside of these intermediate parts asthe filling of package may 95 besides tobacco,

.4, having an opening on ing with the transparent the package and the end sections are brought to ether prior to the wrapping. a hese end sections 2 are or may be formed in the manner described for the end section shown in Fig. 2 but the blank will be smaller and of different shape, v as will be readily understood. y

I claim 1. -A package havin rate end sections each f and bottom portions angles to retain gas an together lon itudinally the like and is in combination sepaormed with top flanges and molded at their adapted to be brought 12 4 to enclose cigars and lay the same and having loners engaging each other edgewise to aid in maintaining said sections in.

line with each other, anda transparent wrap- [I per surrounding the top, bottom and sidesof the end sections and having its edges dual to the same on lines surrounding the en sections, to' seal the joint line between said end sectionsand form a gas-tight display pack-- exterior protecting frame 0 1,821,472 age, said package being charged withinert as. a l 2. A package havin in combination separate end sections each ormed with top flanges 5 and bottom portions and molded at their angles to retain gas and adapted to be brought i together lon 'tudinally to enclose ci ars and the like an display the same an having longitudinal shoulders engaging each other edgewise to aid in maintamingsaid sections in line with each other, and a transparent wrapper surrounding the top: bottom and sidesof the end sectlons and wing its end edges glued to the same on lines surrounding the end sections, to seal the joint line between said end sections and form a gas-tight displa J package, said package being charged wit inert gas, and an aperture formed in one of said end sections to permit air to be exhausted go from an assembled filled ackage, said aper ture being adapted to be ermeticall sealed after an inert gas has been substitute for the exhausted air.

In testimony whereoi I aflix m si ature.

JOHN T. M00 0 son. 

